The Drunken Mother and the Gin Shop Keeper

Abstract

The disgrace of drunkenness was usually presented as much worse where a woman was involved and, if she were a mother in charge of a baby, this compounded the offence. This illustration from The Band of Hope Review in 1863 might remind some readers of the mother shown dropping her baby in Hogarth’s Gin Lane, over 100 years earlier.

THE DRUNKEN MOTHER AND THE GIN SHOP KEEPER. (see next page.)
(This illustration from “Common Sense” is inserted by the kind permission of Messrs. Cash and Co.)